ROBODAILY - INDO DAILY

Jul 24, 2014 (ESA)

Code, play and command your space droid - students across Europe can bring a squadron of minisatellites to life on the International Space Station as the ultima...

Japanese leader proposes first-ever 'Robot Olympics'

Jul 24, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

Nations of the world will be sending their most talented athletes to Tokyo in 2020 for the Olympic Games - but if Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gets his wa...

Astronauts to Test Free-Flying Housekeeper Robots

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

Inspired by science fiction, three bowling ball-size free-flying Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) have been flyin...

This time for the PLA: Chinese army shows off dancing robots

Jul 22, 2014 (AFP)

To the sound of Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) robots demonstrated their dance steps, screaming recruits drilled with bayonets and tanks rolled as C...

Getting a grip on robotic grasp

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

Twisting a screwdriver, removing a bottle cap, and peeling a banana are just a few simple tasks that are tricky to pull off single-handedly. Now a new wrist-mou...

Squishy robots

Jul 18, 2014 (SPX)

In the movie "Terminator 2," the shape-shifting T-1000 robot morphs into a liquid state to squeeze through tight spaces or to repair itself when harmed. Now a p...

Human or robot? Hit Swedish TV series explores shrinking divide

Jul 18, 2014 (AFP)

He has no special interest in science fiction, but the creator of a Swedish sci-fi drama that pits robots against humans has struck a nerve among viewers. "Real...

Medical advances turn science fiction into science fact

Jul 18, 2014 (AFP)

Exoskeletons helping the paralysed to walk, tiny maggot-inspired devices gnawing at brain tumours, machines working tirelessly as hospital helpers: in many resp...

'Take your clothes off, be like me!' says wise-cracking robot

Jul 16, 2014 (AFP)

A wise-cracking humanoid robot called Pepper whose makers claim can read people's emotions was unveiled in Tokyo last month. Mobile carrier Softbank, which crea...

Japanese androids take us closer to 'Blade Runner' future

Jul 16, 2014 (AFP)

A future in which it is difficult to tell man and machine apart could soon become reality, scientists say, after recent robotic breakthroughs in Japan. But as t...

University Students Developing Robotic Gardening Technology

Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)

For more than a half-century, NASA has made the stuff of science fiction into reality. Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in ...

Your next opponent in Angry Birds could be a robot

Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)

With the help of a smart tablet and Angry Birds, children can now do something typically reserved for engineers and computer scientists: program a robot to lear...

Power consumption of robot joints could be 40 percent less

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

Robots are being increasingly used in industrial processes because of their ability to carry out repetitive tasks in a precise, reliable way. Right now, digital...

Collisions with Robots - without Risk of Injury

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

Teamwork between humans and robots will be the motto of the future. But robots may not injure humans at all. When does contact cause an injury, though? Research...

3D Google smartphones to help NASA robots navigate in space

Jul 11, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

NASA plans to send Google smartphones with state of the art 3D sensing technology into orbit to use them as eyes and brains for its newest sci-fi inspired machi...

US military awards $40 million toward memory implant

Jul 09, 2014 (AFP)

US military researchers announced Wednesday they have awarded $40 million toward developing a new kind of brain implant that may help restore memories in wounde...

Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command

Jul 08, 2014 (SPX)

Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pu...

How do ants get around? Ultra-sensitive machines measure their every step...

Jul 05, 2014 (SPX)

How do ants manage to move so nimbly whilst coordinating three pairs of legs and a behind that weighs up to 60% of their body mass? German scientists have recen...

Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers

Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)

Sometimes it takes a village to teach a robot. University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to te...

Collaborative learning -- for robots

Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)

Machine learning, in which computers learn new skills by looking for patterns in training data, is the basis of most recent advances in artificial intelligence,...